I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.
The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

